Update: Due to the popularity, we now have 20 licenses in total up for grabs! Keep the funny calendar entries coming! :)

There are certain matches that are made in heaven; peanut butter & jelly, sunny days and weekends or Andrew and his new iPad 2.

Another great match made recently is Alfred and QuickCal. Created by Jim Boutcher of Smelly Puppy, QuickCal is an app that allows you to use plain text to create events and todos on any of your iCal calendars.

The two have now come together to make it even easier to add events to your calendar with an Alfred custom search. Just click here to import the custom search and say “Oh yes!” to add it to Alfred.

To use it, grab QuickCal in the Mac App Store for a mere $1.99 or £1.19. It’s a real bargain. However, if the price of a slice of pizza is too much for your pocket right now, Jim kindly donated 10 QuickCal licenses for us to give away.

QuickCal giveaway

Win one of ten licenses for QuickCal for Mac by entering in the giveaway below!

To participate: In the comments below, post the first calendar appointment you would make with QuickCal. Tomorrow, we’ll pick the ten best and funniest entries.

For example:

pick up Steve’s 37 black turtlenecks from drycleaner Fri 4pm

You have until 4pm UK time (11am EST/8am PST) on Thursday 7th April to post your entry.The competition is now closed – we will be announcing the winners shortly. Ensure you leave a valid email address so that we can contact you if you win. (Bonus points if your entry makes Andrew spit out his Diet Coke!)

The Winners

Congratulations to Matthew Callier for the entry that was unanimously voted as the funniest, most Diet-Coke-spitting entry:

Remember to put on pants before making QuickCal license acceptance speech video.

The other winners are:

John Davis

Bernhard Mäser

Daniel

Brian

Joe Wanja

Kumail Rizvi’s monkey

Greg Miles

Alexander de Haas

Ben S

Mashi

Paul

Florian Taltavull

Giles Butler

Michael Raphael

Patrick Tulskie

Kiero

Atlas Wegman, the walrus keeper

Luke

Stephanie

All winners will receive an email with their unique redeem code today :) Thanks to everyone who took part and submitted their entries!

cal set wayback machine to noon april 6th to catch self falling off chair as I see the speed improvements using quickcal and alfred can make. Drat set wayback machine for instant after noon april 6th to help other self who arrived an instant ago prop up self as I am heavier than I thought.

5am get screaming twins out of their cribs
5:15am start coffee
6am fill coffee maker with water that I forgot to add because I am so damn tired
7am go to work
7:05 use alfred to open up all my apps
7:15am Tell east coast clients I can’t have a meeting right now because I’m brain is still recovering (aka need more coffee)
9am Meet with clients now that I have had 13 cups of coffee
2pm start caffeine withdraws
5pm tell clients in earlier timezone we’ll have to meet tomorrow
6pm give twins a bath
6:30pm get hit in the head repeatedly with bath toys
7pm put screaming twins to bed
7:30pm too tired to make dinner, order chinese
8:30pm eat chinese
9pm hack on side projects
1am go to bed and dread the next day

Invent a time machine made from cornflake boxes, empty washing up liquid bottles, used toilet roll rolls and glitter, yes, lots of GOLD glitter!
Then travel back in time to a few hours ago so you have enough time to write something witty.
Repeat alarm until funny.
P.S. Pick up tub of gloopy glue.